Poems and Songs: A Collection (Stikhi i pesenki: Sbornik). 1947. In Russian.

Стихи и песенки : сборник.
Москва : Полиграфическая диплома III степени фабрика Треста местной промышленности Москворецкого района г. Москвы, 1947. 16 с. ; 16,7 × 13,5 см.
Тираж 50 000 экз. Заказ 378.
Мягкая издательская обложка.
Состояние очень хорошее: обложка чистая, блок полный.
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Poems and Songs: A Collection / [various authors].
Moscow: Diploma Printing Factory (Third Degree) of the Trust of Local Industry, Moskvoretsky District, 1947. 16 pp. ; 16.7 × 13.5 cm.
Print run of 50,000 copies. Order no. 378.
Soft publisher's wrapper.
Condition very good: clean wrapper, complete text block.

This slender 1947 anthology gathers poems and songs for children by leading Soviet poets, including Vladimir Mayakovsky's "May Song" ("Maiskaia pesenka"), a buoyant marching poem celebrating spring, cleanliness, and the workers' red banners, and Samuil Marshak's "Red Square" ("Krasnaia ploshchad'"), a description in verse of the postwar Victory Parade on Red Square, evoking marching regiments, cavalry, tanks, artillery, and naval cadets passing before the mausoleum. What is bibliographically unusual about the edition is its publisher: rather than one of the major state literary or children's presses (Detgiz, Gospolitizdat), it was issued by the print shop of the Trust of Local Industry of Moscow's Moskvoretsky District, a minor district-level industrial enterprise that had itself been awarded a Third-Degree Diploma for print quality. This kind of small, non-standard imprint sat at the margins of the Soviet publishing system rather than its well-documented center, and copies of this type are correspondingly scarce and difficult to trace in library holdings or the antiquarian trade today. The copy retains, loosely laid in, the factory's original paper quality-control slip ("Controller No. 1"), instructing the buyer to return any defective copy together with the tag - a fragile piece of production ephemera that rarely survives alongside the book it accompanied. Issued in a print run of 50,000 copies, the booklet is a modest but evidently uncommon example of Moscow district-level children's publishing in the first postwar year, of interest chiefly for its inclusion of canonical verse by Mayakovsky and Marshak within an obscure and little-recorded imprint.